Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This accident at landing was one which would not ordinarily occur and which can easily be prevented in the future by using rock-wool instead of excelsior.
Minnesota. Director Sidney J. Williams of the Council's public safety division estimated that if all States had rigid license laws 3,000 lives would have been saved last year. The Council's chief statistician, Reuben L. Forney, showed that 50,274 persons will die in 1950 if...
Juan Trippe's triumphal day was somewhat marred by the wreck of a Pan American-Grace Airways transport which occurred in the sea off Panama four days earlier, snuffing out 14 lives (TIME, Aug. 9). Pan American spokesmen hastened to point out that the wrecked plane was not one...
The wrecked amphibian was a Sikorsky S-43, weighed 19,000 lb., had a passenger capacity of 15. A fleet of Navy craft searching the accident area last week found packages of mail, life preservers, cushions, a rug, a container of ice cream. The mail was dried out in a...
Suzanne began a furious correspondence mingling hysteria with threats, telling him he would be sorry some day. Realizing now what a "dangerous and artificial girl" she was, he congratulated himself on his narrow escape, vowed he would thereafter confine himself to friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed...